Out of the past 11/28/08

25 years ago: Nov. 28, 1983

NEW MADRID, Mo. --- Democratic presidential hopeful John Glenn is scheduled to be in New Madrid this week for a fundraiser; 8th Congressional District supporters of the Ohio senator are hosting the event Friday at Sharp's Catering.

The owner of a local retail outlet for plumbing, heating and cooling materials has decided to seek a seat on the Cape Girardeau City Council; Joseph D. Warren Jr. says he will probably formally file his nominating petition next week.

50 years ago: Nov. 28, 1958

Traffic limped along at a slow pace and bogged down completely in some instances in the midst of a Thanksgiving-born snowstorm that piled up to 8 1/4 inches at the time it comes to a stop at the noon hour; it is the most severe, early-season snow storm in years in the Cape Girardeau area.

Despite the snow-covered roads, nearly 50 young people of Methodist churches in the Cape Girardeau district depart at 5 a.m. for St. Louis and a two-day, conferencewide convocation.

75 years ago: Nov. 28, 1933

Cape Girardeau's outer drive, built as a scenic boulevard and a connecting route for roads leading out of the city, is opened to traffic by the Cape Girardeau Special Road District; engineer D.M. Scivally says it is now possible to drive out the Bend Road, Cape Rock Drive and around the completed sections of the road and to U.S. 61, just west of the Broadway junction.

A telegram is received by the Billy Sunday committee from Harry D. Clark, saying he will arrive in Cape Girardeau with a large consignment of song books early Saturday and will at once get busy on organizing a choir of 200 men and women for the Sunday meetings to start Dec. 5.

100 years ago: Nov. 28, 1908

Mrs. John Fullbright returns early in the morning on the Houck train from Highland, Mo., in Perry County; she was there several days visiting her sisters and other relatives.

Ed Hausen comes near to losing his life in the morning when he falls 25 feet from the roof of professor B.G. Shackelford's new house near the Normal School; Hausen was helping the tile setter who has been putting on the green tile roof.

-- Sharon K. Sanders